Lek-Heng Lim () is a Singaporean mathematician. Lim earned a bachelor's degree at the

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, studied for his master's at

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and the

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, and completed a doctorate at

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. Lim started his teaching career at the

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, where he served as Charles Morrey Assistant Professor. He later joined the

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faculty. While affiliated with Chicago, Lim won the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing and in 2017, followed by the 2020 Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra. In 2020, Lim was also elected a fellow of the

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. Lim was awarded a

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in April 2022.

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